#EmojiSounds 🖕🏽 The Resistance Revival Chorus ft Rhiannon Giddens x WoodyGuthrie A song & truth 82 years old #AllYouFascistsBoundToLose Allison Russell ✍🏽 May we find the Courage & Conviction & Critical Mass Coalition to resist fascism #LoveIsTheRevolution m.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

#EmojiSounds Chaka Khan x I’m Every Woman bringing 🪩 to Newport FolkFest Allison Russell was the first Black woman to curate the final day’s set. She chose Chaka, at 68, to headline the final set including a superjam of women artists joyously sharing the stage 🎵 🌈 m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9uQ...

Allison Russell ✍🏽 There is improbable magic all around us, & limitless magic in our own ♥️ & minds & imaginations #Rainbows is a song about connecting w/ our own essential magic - a magic maybe we thought we’d lost - so we can put it back into the world 🌈🌈 🌈 Allison’s 1st new 🎶 for 2026 is here ⬇️

Oops, mistook the leaf for the Canadian flag🤦 #EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge 13🍁 It's autumn and the mighty Julie Miller is singing It's just that I recall September It's just that I still hear your song It's just I can't seem to remember Forever more those days are gone youtube.com/watch?v=4Z-M...

💥 ALLISON RUSSELL 💥 💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 💫 🌈 Rainbows 🌈 💫 m.youtube.com/watch?v=4KfG...

#EmojiSounds There are some artists I discover not thru self-promotion but thru how they generously uplift other artists. @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social 🍁 is one of them. This is a wonderful tribute song 🙏🏽 🎼It’s the #ShoesOfAMan Tell a life The way words never can LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=l5xk...

#EmojiSounds 🏝️ From the warm nights of Grand Anse beach Grenada, Sans Soucci (w/out a worry) x BirdsOfChicago Allison Russell ✍🏽 this 🎶 in joy of meeting her blood-father in his homeland 🇬🇩 If u hear the lyric “premier fois” that’s hearing his voice for the 1st time m.youtube.com/watch?v=2R4t...

#EmojiSounds 🍕 Saw the multi-talented 🇮🇸🇨🇳 Laufey in 🇬🇧 y’day She plays 🎸 🎹 🎻 Sings like a young Ella x Chet Writes classic 🎶 w/ a fresh ✨ & hands out 🏆 for best cosplay 🎼Feeling kinda sick tonight All I’ve had is coffee & leftover pie #LetYouBreakMyHeartAgain 3:30~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=avjI...

#EmojiSounds 👠 #MusicChallenge This one was written by the glorious Yola 5 yrs ago on ex British PM Theresa May’s famously expensive footwear She’s long gone but the 🎶 hasn’t got old. 🎼They buy #DiamondStuddedShoes with our taxes Anything to keep us divided m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfC_...

#InternationalWomensDay Allison Russell posted a 🎶 written 20yrs ago for IWD. One of her bravest. When she publicly shared she was a Survivor of abuse We are not doomed to do what was done to us We are more than the Sum of our Scars #NoShame The shame is not ours m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rcn...

#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 9: 🎻 This wonderful duo have performed with Brandi Carlile and Allison Russell for years. SistaStrings - 'Lift Every Voice' youtube.com/watch?v=iIqQ...

#EmojiSounds #WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay Allison Russell ✍🏽 We are one human family No matter our differences, if we trace our human DNA back far enough, we share a mother And she was from Africa Our mitochondrial Eve #EveWasBlack ft SistaStrings 🎻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kadg...

#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge 🎻 is for SistaStrings aka Monique & Chauntee Ross 👏🏽 👏🏽 They’ve lit up the stage / Superbowl w/ Brandi Carlile & the 🎻 arrangements on Allison Russell’s Grammy 🏆 💿 Creativity winning over adversity, Brandi’s producing their 💿 later this yr m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYc...

#EmojiSounds #WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay b. 1926, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton lost her own mama at 13yo, left home shortly after & rose to become one of the pioneers of RocknRoll & RnB The 1st to record Hound Dog, she made no money but made history m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxoG...

#EmojiSounds 🪖 #WomensHistoryMonth b. 1917, Anna Marly moved to 🇫🇷 after her father was killed in the Russian revolution She penned two of the great resistance songs, not just for 🇫🇷 but for freedom From Allison Russell’s playlist, Leonard Cohen x Le Partisan LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYy...

#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge Catch up post combining 🇯🇵 + 🙈 Phenomenonal. extraordinary. inspirational. Whatever you call it, take a 2min time-out for blind 🇯🇵 🎹 Nobuyuki Tsujii m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNR-...

#EmojiSounds #WomensHistoryMonth 👋 Back after short break, been a busy week 😊 Going 🔙 in time w/ the truly marvellous Olivia Coleman reading a 350yr letter to a husband of what I think we can all agree are Entirely Reasonable Requests Also… m.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIr...

#BlackHistoryMonth Born OTD Marian Anderson 🎉 the legendary Black soprano, who sang in front of 70,000 outside the Lincoln Memorial Here’s a lesser known story. Singing thru the rain in a shell-hit auditorium in the Korean war, she changed the life of Utah Phillips 🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=fClw...

#BlackHistoryMonth Alice Randall was the 1st Black woman to pen a country #1 Her tribute to DeFord Bailey (1899-1982) ✍🏽 DeFord isn’t just the father of Black Country DF is the father of Country & was Country’s 1st superstar How in the f**k does that get forgotten? m.youtube.com/watch?v=yjlR...

#BlackHistoryMonth Alice Randall was the 1st Black woman to pen a country #1 Her tribute to DeFord Bailey (1899-1982) ✍🏽 DeFord isn’t just the father of Black Country DF is the father of Country & was Country’s 1st superstar How in the f**k does that get forgotten?

#BlackHistoryMonth Etta Baker (1913- 2006) did not release her 1st album until she was in her 60s She was kind of kept at home, even tho she was this master piedmont blues 🎸 Inspiring Our Native Daughters “I Knew I Could Fly”, here’s the artistry of #RailroadBill m.youtube.com/watch?v=HegG...

#BlackHistoryMonth b. Feb 1898, Lil Hardin Armstrong was a pioneer of country & jazz Allison Russell ✍🏽 A brilliant composer, pianist, arranger, band leader - it was Lil that helped Louis Armstrong step out of the shadows it is Lil’s 🎹 accompanying Jimmie Rodgers on the foundational BlueYodel #9

#BlackHistoryMonth Allison Russell ✍🏽There are Black women at the root of every genre of American song. That’s just demonstrably true. b. 1893, Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was a country /roots pioneer who’s still in the DNA of so much 🎶 She invented a left handed style of 🎸playing: “Cotten picking”

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky #MusicSky Allison Russell ✍🏽 Representation matters = when your entire life you’d never seen a Black woman play guitar until you saw Tracy Chapman & then the world is different & the possibilities open & the horizon opens wider & that’s what we want for all our kids

#ResistanceRoots #BlackHistoryMonth In February 2024, Beyoncé’s single “Texas Hold ‘Em” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs, making her the first Black woman to top that chart. It challenged industry gatekeeping and the genre’s historic disdain for its African American roots. /1

#BlackHistoryMonth Allison Russell ✍🏽 [People think] there’s rock’n’roll ‘cause of Elvis when there’s rocknroll ‘cause of Sister Rosetta Tharpe She invented modern electric 🎸playing w/the first use of distortion A young Elvis went to the Black side of town to hear her🎵 & she invited him onstage

#BlackHistoryMonth Allison Russell ✍🏽 What we’re easily tricked out of remembering is this whitewashing [of rock 🎵/ genres] 💥 WHEN BLACK WOMEN INVENTED IT!! 💥 🖤 b.1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is, indisputably, the Mother of RockNRoll 🎸 🖤 She was the prime influencer, the foundation of all it

#ResistanceRoots #BlackHistoryMonth It might seem that white people invented the dialect in African American spirituals to portray Black people as inferior. That’s what André J. Thomas thought until his mentor, Jester Hairston, explained the “why” behind the music. Let’s learn along with him. /1

Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell to Honour Joni Mitchell at 2026 JUNO Awards

#BlackHistoryMonth HBD Fatoumata Diawara 🎉 When you think of the 🎸 … do you think of an inspirational Malian goddess with a voice like summer? b. OTD 1982, she’s risen to become a groundbreaking artist in 🎵 and 🎥 From Allison Russell’s playlist, here’s #Nterini m.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBq...

#BlackHistoryMonth HBD Rhiannon Giddens Allison Russell ✍🏽 RG told me of the feeling she s/times gets when she’s writing w/ that 🪕 🪕 that songs already inhabit it 🪕 she’s transmitting from beyond her 🪕 other voices speaking thru her Listen to #Julie & you’ll hear it m.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuq...

#BlackHistoryMonth HBD #NinaSimone Allison Russell ✍🏽 One thing that makes me very sad about recording is the digitising of human creaks & imperfections out of music I’m allergic to that kind of perfection I revere Nina Simone…, artists who allow musical moments & imperfections to breathe

Eleanor Collins was called Canada's First Lady of Jazz. The daughter of parents who left the American South for Canada, she broke several barriers on television and in music, and lived to be 104. This is her amazing story. 🧵 1/9

#BlackHistoryMonth 21 Feb gets rightly celebrated as 👑Nina Simone’s birthday 🥳 but it’s special too as it’s also HBD to the amazing artists: 🪕 Rhiannon Giddens 🇲🇱 Fatoumata Diawara 🏳️‍⚧️ as well as anniv of Jackie Shane’s passing 🖤 So here’s a celebratory 🧵 on all of them 😊

#BlackHistoryMonth Celebrating Jackie Shane, who passed OTD 2019🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 🌹🫶🏽 Described by Allison Russell as “the Eternal, Iconic Transcestor”, her🎵& her courage timeless 🎼 Tell her that I’m happy Tell her that I’m gay Tell her I wouldn’t have it #AnyOtherWay m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnw...

#BlackHistoryMonth b. 1924, Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan was an elite songstress Even at the end of a 50yr career, her multiple octave range & intense vocal control wowed audiences all over the 🌍 Here’s one of the divine one’s signature songs LIVE 1964 Misty 🔥 🔥 🔥 🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXL...

#BlackHistoryMonth 🖤 Tomorrow marks the final day in our reprise of the Allison Russell hosted Womanica podcasts of groundbreaking Black womxn musicians 🙏🏽 Thanks to all for the shares, likes & reposts! 🧵 Here’s a THREAD of the full list to enjoy + playlist to follow

#BlackHistoryMonth b. OTD 19 Feb 1920 in Minneapolis 🎉Eileen Southern was the first tenured Black woman at Harvard She transformed the perception of Black music in🇺🇸as a serious study She overcame daily racial & gender bias to ensure Black music filled the void in the whitewashed history of 🎶

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#BlackHistoryMonth b. 1943 in Detroit, Mary Wells rose from childhood illness leaving her partially deaf & blind to becoming the Queen of Motown Another often left out of the history 📚 & the Hall of Fame, she was Motown’s first big ⭐️ (singer & writer)& paved the way for others like Diana Ross

#BlackHistoryMonth Ethel Waters #UnderAHarlemMoon 1933 I first learnt about this song & the way Ethel adjusted the lyrics to turn this into a resistance song from Rhiannon Giddens m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLue...

#BlackHistoryMonth b.1896 to an abused child mother, Ethel Waters rose to become a pioneering legend Some of her firsts as a 🖤woman: 1️⃣ to perform StLouisBlues & StormyMonday 1️⃣to star in integrated Broadway cast (by Irving Berlin) 1️⃣ to star in own TV show 1️⃣to sing on 📻 1️⃣ nom Emmy award

As a bonus, here’s a piece from Mary Lou Williams groundbreaking Zodiac Suite From 1945 it was one of the first to fuse jazz & classical styles. Each piece was named after a Black musician, so here’s Aquarius for guitarist, singer & activity Josh White b 11 Feb 1914 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngfa...

And this is how incredible Mary Lou Williams still sounded on the piano at 68yo, three years before her passing

#BlackHistoryMonth b.1910 Mary Lou Williams is often left out of the history 📚but she belongs in the pantheon of 🎶 greats Her incredible musicality helped shape the arc of jazz 🖤 in 🎹 performances 🖤 as an arranger for the likes of Goodman, Armstrong & Duke 🖤 as mentor to Dizzy, Monk & bebop

HBD Monique Ross of Sista Strings! 🎉 Here’s a little piece of heaven Brandi Carlile x Sara Bareilles at MSG this w/e singing a new song written from the magical words & beautiful humanity of the late poet Andrea Gibson Salt Then Sour Then Sweet 🔥 ♥️ 🌈 🫂 🥰 m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBK3...

#BlackHistoryMonth Before passing at 39yo, Dinah Washington rose to become the QueenOfTheBlues QuincyJones ✍🏽on DW She could take the melody in her hand Hold it like an 🥚 crack it open fry it let it sizzle Reconstruct it Put it back in the box & u would still have understood every single syllable

First post on here is for my own sanity! Duke Ellington on dreaming.

#BlackHistoryMonth b.1924, Clara Ward was a groundbreaking gospel singer who first started w/ her mama & sister as the Ward Singers (+ Marion Williams) Aretha Franklin came to one of her shows as a child Clara became a mother figure to Aretha who sang at her funeral m.youtube.com/watch?v=4JZS...